Category: Inspiration & Creativity
Are You Scared to Write? 8 Ways to Overcome Fear of Writing
If you’re scared to write, you’re not alone. Writing is scary stuff, my friend. These ways to overcome fear of writing will increase your writing productivity and improve your chances of getting published. Before the tips, a quip: “When I’m scared – and I’m always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have [...]
3 Writing Tips From Diana Gabaldon – How to Be a Writer
These writing tips from Diana Gabaldon, a bestselling author, will show you how to be a writer – especially when you’re discouraged and tired! Successful writers put their feelings aside and treat writing like it is: their work. Why? Because it’s a job. For instance, when emergency room doctors are discouraged, they can’t lie down for a snooze. [...]
Writing Inspiration From Anne Lamott – How to Write Authentically
If you need writing inspiration, you go to Anne Lamatt! Or come here to learn how to write authentically. These writing tips are inspired by Anne Lamott – one of my favorite published authors. She’ll teach you how to be a successful writer, whether you like it or not! Before the tips, a quip: “Write straight into the emotional [...]
How to Let Go of Your Writing – The Courage to Write
Finding the courage to write, and let go of your writing, is a challenge for freelance writers, novelists, poets, and even bloggers. Here are three tips that will open you up and expand your writing career… Before the tips, a quip: “Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn,” writes [...]
5 Ways to Find Writing Inspiration From Margaret Laurence
These five ways to find writing inspiration are inspired by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. These tips will help you create new ideas for both magazine articles and book ideas, and increase your writing productivity. Before the tips, a quip: “I’ve never been able to force a novel,” wrote Laurence in Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. “I always [...]
Overcome Writing Rejections and Failures – Tips From J.K. Rowling
All writers — no matter how successful — need to learn how to overcome writing failures and rejections. These tips for writers are based on J.K. Rowling’s Commencement Speech at Harvard, which was about failing in life, and succeeding as a writer. Rowling called this part of her speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure.” “An exceptionally short-lived [...]
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